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Adding oEmbed to a Jekyll Site

Archive This post is preserved from the original Jekyll iteration of this blog. The oEmbed embeds and some external links may no longer work. Success! I recently heard about this cool protocol called oEmbed that allows a link to effectively self-describe how it should be embedded into a web page if it is some kind of media content. The catch to add it to this blog was that I couldn’t run any Jekyll plugins on it as it is hosted by GitHub and they don’t allow them for security and sandboxing reasons. ...

January 24, 2013 · 2 min · Seth